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George Woodbury, who donated the hair 

clippings to the PMAE in 1935. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Lineal Descent 

The human remains in this notice are 

connected to an identifiable individual 

whose descendants can be traced 

directly and without interruption by 

means of a traditional kinship system or 

by the common law system of 

descendance. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate lineal 

descendants, Indian Tribes, and Native 

Hawaiian organizations, the PMAE has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of an individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• Virginia Wilhelm is a direct lineal 

descendant to the named individual’s 

human remains described in this notice. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains in this notice must be 

sent to the Responsible Official 

identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for 

repatriation may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the lineal 

descendants, Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after March 25, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the PMAE must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The PMAE is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the lineal descendant, 

identified in this notice. 

This notice was submitted before the 

effective date of the revised regulations 

(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, 

effective January 12, 2024). As the 

notice conforms to the mandatory 

format of the Federal Register and 

includes the required information, the 

National Park Service is publishing this 

notice as submitted. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 

Dated: February 9, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03577 Filed 2–21–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037406; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Klamath Falls, OR 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Fish and 

Wildlife Service (USFWS) has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and has determined that there is a 

cultural affiliation between the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from Siskiyou County, 

CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 25, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Spencer Lodge, USFWS, 

1936 California Avenue, Klamath Falls, 

OR 97601, telephone (541) 885–8481, 

email spencer_lodge@fws.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the USFWS. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by the USFWS. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 46 individuals, along with 

associated funerary objects, were 

removed from Siskiyou County, CA by 

R. J. Squier and Gordon L. Grosscup 

during archeological excavations 

occurring between 1952–1954. 

Excavations took place at two national 

wildlife refuges (NWR) operated by the 

USFWS, Tule Lake and Lower Klamath 

NWR, where human remains and 

associated funerary objects were 

removed from four sites (CA-Sis-2, CASis-108, CA-Sis-223, CA-Sis-239). These 

objects have been curated at the Phoebe 

A. Hearst Museum at the University of 

California Berkeley since exhumation. 

There are 373 associated funerary 

objects within this collection. They 

include: 268 Olivella beads, 16 flakes, 

13 bangles, 11 crystals, 10 scrapers, 10 

bird bone tubes, five lots of ochre/ 

pigment (red, yellow, white), four awls, 

four pipe and pipe fragments, four 

projectile points, four lots of shell 

fragments, three bone tools, three 

animal bone beads, two haliotis 

ornaments, two bone whistles, two 

obsidian blades, two choppers, two 

bone pendants, two bone pins, two 

pebbles (agate, quartz), one lot of ashes 

and charcoal from pipe, one projectile 

point fragment, one unworked Olivella 

shell, and one worked bone fragment. 

Nine beads and four lots of shell 

fragments are currently missing from the 

collection, and the Museum continues 

to looks for them. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. Here is a relationship of shared 

group identity between the identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures and one or more Indian Tribes 

or Native Hawaiian organizations. The 

following types of information were 

used to reasonably trace the 

relationship: archeological information 

and geographical information. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the USFWS has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 46 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 373 objects described in this 

notice are reasonably believed to have 

been placed with or near individual 

human remains at the time of death or 

later as part of the death rite or 

ceremony. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice and the Klamath Tribes and 

the Modoc Nation. 


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Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects in this 

notice to a requestor may occur on or 

after March 25, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the USFWS must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The USFWS is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

This notice was submitted after the 

effective date of the revised regulations 

(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, 

effective January 12, 2024). As the 

notice conforms to the mandatory 

format of the Federal Register and 

includes the required information, the 

National Park Service is publishing this 

notice as submitted. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 

Dated: February 9, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03573 Filed 2–21–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037415; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Cleveland State University, Cleveland, 

OH 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Cleveland 

State University has completed an 

inventory of human remains and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The human 

remains were removed from Franklin 

County, MA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after March 25, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Andrew E. Kersten, 

Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid 

Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115–2214, 

telephone (216) 687–9350, email 

a.e.kersten@csuohio.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of Cleveland State 

University. The National Park Service is 

not responsible for the determinations 

in this notice. Additional information 

on the determinations in this notice, 

including the results of consultation, 

can be found in the inventory or related 

records held by Cleveland State 

University. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from Franklin County, MA. The human 

remains collection currently held at 

Cleveland State University is largely the 

work of the former member of faculty in 

the CSU Department of Anthropology, 

Dr. John Blank (d. 2019). The sites 

known to be associated with the 

concerns of NAGPRA all fall within 

those excavated by (or alongside) Dr. 

Blank, beginning in the 1960s. Many of 

Dr. Blank’s excavations took place as 

field schools for students, but some also 

contained components of rescue 

archeology (as sites emerged due to 

erosion). The human remains in 

question here were part of the Knapp 

site in Franklin County, MA. The 

individual appears to be 50–60 years of 

age. No associated funerary objects are 

present. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: anthropological 

information, archeological information, 

folklore, geographical information, 

historical information, kinship, 

linguistics, oral tradition, and expert 

opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, Cleveland State 

University has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains 

described in this notice and the 

Stockbridge Munsee Community, 

Wisconsin. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains in this notice must be 

sent to the Responsible Official 

identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for 

repatriation may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after March 25, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

Cleveland State University must 

determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to repatriation. Requests 

for joint repatriation of the human 

remains are considered a single request 

and not competing requests. Cleveland 

State University is responsible for 

sending a copy of this notice to the 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations identified in this notice. 

This notice was submitted before the 

effective date of the revised regulations 

(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, 

effective January 12, 2024). As the 

notice conforms to the mandatory 

format of the Federal Register and 

includes the required information, the 

National Park Service is publishing this 

notice as submitted. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 


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